Copan Travel Blogs

Had breakfast at 8.30 at a nice restaurant called Via Via, where we will also be heading for dinner. Then headed to the Copan Ruins, where once tens of thousands of people lived. It was ruled by 14 kings over a period of 400 years, and they ended it all with a revolution before leaving to head to t…

  The next five hours I spent in three different buses, getting to the town of Copán Ruinas, a town named after the nearby ruins of Copán (duh). It was one of the longer days of travelling this trip, but I enjoyed every single moment of it. As I had all day to get to Copán I only travel…

We arrived quite late in Copan after a full´s day travel from Utila... ferries, buses and waiting rooms.  Stepping out of the bus terminal we were swamped by tuk tuk drivers trying to offer their services, which is always overwhelming.  In the swarm of touts Maree took a wrong footing of…

After escaping the zombies in Tegucigalpa, we decided to head to Copan, the site of the world famous Copan Mayan Ruins. We left the capital really early in the morning, meaning we were extremely tired, or in other words, meaning we slept passed our bus conection city. We were an hour aways from wh…

We all met at 09.00 and made the short walk (15 mins) to the Ruins of Copan, where we met with our guide for the visit. (At the entrance we saw some Mackaws, which we're beautiful to watch.) The tour lasted for approximately two hours were we saw the central plaza of Copan, learnt about the differe…

A bit uncertain if we were a bit ruined out already, we decided to head to Copan Ruinas anyway.  We´re glad we did.  The ruins weren't as grand as Tikal, but there is a lot more sculptures and art work preserved here.  It was a lovely morning playing on the ruins and …

The ruins at Copan are really awesome.  It is amazing to see what the world was like hundreds of years ago.  The ruins are unlike anything you could imagine in our times.  There are altars and monuments for rituals the likes of which we could never imagine these days.  The stone…

This was a five week trip through parts of Central America. I spent most of my time in Guatemala. I had a loose plan that included Antigua, Tikal, El Mirador, islands in Belize and Copan in Honduras.

We had another lazy morning yesterday, as Rusty hasn't been feeling to well as of late (and wanted to be near the loo at all times). It was really nice to have a break from all of our rushing around, and we ended up just sitting around reading our books all morning, which was bliss!When we had been…

Copán in RuinsSo these are Mayan ruins. Mr Hill, you need to come to this part of the world if life allows the priviledge. Really, it is incredible.  You know how we get all excited about little bits of upright rock which form circles on the UK's moorland?  These Mayans really knew how t…

Getting from A to B... or A to C on this occasion Antigua to Copan - I know bad pun - can at times be long and boring and our trip on this occasion was no different. Seven hours on a bus starting at four thirty doesn't sound quite as bad when you are getting private transport, at least its more com…

Crossed the border at El Florido on Friday morning so I am now in Honduras ! Caught a microbus to Copan Ruinas the little colonial town near to the ruins. Found a really nice hostel the Blue Iguana and had a relatively relaxed Friday checking out the town,and getting some much needed chores do…

Thankfully we managed to leave the hell hole of San Pedro Sula relatively early and sat on the bus for a few hours before reaching Copan Ruinas.  We settled into the relatively cheap but nice Hotel Gemelos and spent the next three days lounging, eating good food, realizing we are both fat…

CopanMore thinking. A little more work. Then more thinking. Decided it was time to leave this city. Tried to head down to the bus station but their system was broken. Id have to try back early tomorrow morning.More thinking.

    The problem with getting too comfortable in one place while traveling is that you a) never want to move on, because travel is hard work, and b) you have nothing to really write about but lots of time to do it.  So, I left Utila and moved across the country from one trave…